Going Social: How businesses are making the most of social media. Before and After Twitter: Personal Learning Environments. 50 Ways to Use Twitter in the College Classroom. Twitter has caught fire across many professional fields as well as personally, but it seems to be in the beginning stages in the realm of higher education.
The creative ways Twitter users have incorporated microblogging has become inspirational, so the recent trend of using Twitter at college, including at online colleges, is sure to keep evolving into an ever more impressive tool. Make sure you don’t get left behind by incorporating some of these educational and fun ways that Twitter can be used in the college classroom. Communication Twitter offers new and exciting ways to open up the lines of communication in the classroom.
Find out some of the ways it can work with this list. Direct Tweet. Class Projects and Discovering Content From learning how to use Twitter to finding useful information for class to practicing a foreign language, Twitter provides creative opportunities for learning. Twitter-specific projects. Twitter Tools Twhirl. Finding People in Academia to Follow. 50 utilisations de Twitter en entreprise.
To tweet or not to tweet? Part 2. In my last blog I discussed the increasing conflict between the long established listen and learn styles of presenting and the ever increasing use of mobile devices by participants during talks.
In the first part of my blog I looked at how listeners can ensure these devices don’t disrupt their learning experience. This week we come to the bit everybody has been waiting for. How can presenters ensure they get the most engagement out of those people tapping away on iPhones, iPads and a range of other devices? Here are my top tips! Don’t be put off: Everyone has their own way of learning – don’t take people’s engagement with these devices as a sign of not listening to what you’re saying.Recognise and embrace the existence of these tools: Even if you would rather that people didn’t tweet during your talk, the chances are that they will!
Make your information available: Many people take lots of notes and don’t participate in discussions during talks because they are afraid of missing things. Blog. In February I reflected on the Learning Technologies Exhibition 2014 with a post called ‘Design the complete experience’.
Thinking about the end-to-end learner experience was a major theme of the show, and my title was inspired by the continuing relevance of The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning, which was first published in 2006 and republished in 2010. The idea behind this book is to provide a toolkit for learning professionals who want to design programmes that make a genuine business impact, summarised in the six ‘Ds’: Define Outcomes in Business Terms Design the Complete ExperienceDeliver for ApplicationDrive Follow-ThroughDeploy Active SupportDocument Results Today I want to draw attention to the first ‘D’, looking specifically at how we define the problem which we are trying to solve with training.
In an excellent, often searing, chapter on the necessity of defining outcomes in business terms (yes, that means monetary terms!) 1. 2. 3.